Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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News Mormon’s Jewish Outreach Aims To Rebuild Bridges
By day, Mark Paredes works for the American Jewish Congress, doing outreach to the Latino community of Los Angeles. But by night, Paredes, who happens to be a practicing Mormon, volunteers to build relationships with the Los Angeles Jewish community on behalf of his church. At the seat of one of America’s largest communities of…
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Israel News God Is in the Details at Creation Museum
While millions of Americans head to beaches, campgrounds and amusement parks over Memorial Day weekend, a Christian conservative group will be launching a very different type of attraction: a $27 million high-tech museum devoted to creationism. Dubbed simply the Creation Museum, the venture will share many of the features common to all big natural history…
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News Romney Flexes Muscles on Iran
Surging GOP Presidential contender Mitt Romney talked tough to ABC News at a campaign appearance in Tulsa, Okla. yesterday over a recent report about CIA plans in Iran. “The reporting has the potential of jeopardizing our national security,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “Stated quite plainly, it has the potential of affecting human life. We…
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News Middle Class Holds Key to 2008
For some interesting analysis of middle class voting patterns in 2006 and what they mean for 2008, check out this report from the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way.
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News Norm Coleman Stands By His Man
Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota stood by his man – President Bush – as the keynote speaker at the Orthodox Union’s annual dinner in New York last night. Having warmed up the crowd with the story of how he grew up in a “liberal Jewish Democratic family from Brooklyn and wound up as a Republican…
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News Jewish Iraq War Veteran Directs Anti-Bush Effort
This week, the anti-war group VoteVets.org took to the airwaves with a television advertising campaign aimed at several vulnerable Republican incumbents. The ads feature John Batiste and Paul Eaton, two U.S. Army veterans who served as major generals in Iraq, criticizing President Bush’s handling of the war. Off-camera, the man behind the half-million dollar ad…
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News AJC Honors Colombia Chief, A Bush Ally Tied to Abuses
Even though Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is facing scrutiny from Democrats, union leaders and human rights advocates over his government’s record, a prominent Jewish organization was set to honor him this week. The American Jewish Committee was slated to present Uribe with a “Light Unto the Nations Award” on Thursday night at its annual meeting…
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Israel News Obama’s Novel Fundraising Scheme
While the chattering class continues to ask about the extent of Senator Barack Obama’s support for Israel, two renowned Jewish writers are busy raising money for him. Ayelet Waldman and her husband, Michael Chabon — whose latest novel, “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” re-imagines Alaska as the homeland of the Jewish people — recently circulated an…
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